172 pet names for the pacifier

BabyCenter parents weighed in with 172 nicknames for their child's pacifier — some invented by moms and dads, some by the binky addicts themselves.

assy — My daughter called her paci "sassy." My son couldn't say sassy, so he called it "assy," which I found quite humorous.

ba

baby

bah-bah

bee

bee-back — It started as "Bee" and morphed when we tried to wean him away from it, as in "Gimme my BEE BACK."

beebee

bibber

binkerrific

binker

binko

bink

binkus

binkus-fier

binky

binty

bippy

bite

blue ging — She'll only take a blue one. And "ging" is because she can't say "thing."

bobber

bobby — I have no idea where my daughter got that, but it stuck. It's so funny to hear her in her crib saying, "Oh, Bobby, Oh, Bobby" when she's trying to find it.

bo-bo — I've never heard a Puerto Rican call it anything else.

boo-ba

boola

boppy

bubba

bubble

budgie

buggie

buppy

button

Charlie

chew chew

chewy

cho-cho or chochi — From "chusni," the Pakistani/Urdu word for pacifier

chupi — From the Spanish "chupete" (chew-PEH-tay).

clug

cuk

dadoo — Since we both hate the word "binky."

dirty little secret — Because he's 2 and still loves that damn thing!

doo-doo

doopie — When my hubby was a baby, for some unknown reason, he called it a doopie (rhymes with loopy). Now his whole family calls it that!

dowit — Comes from me asking my daughter, "What did you do with it?"

duda — From the Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian way of saying pacifier (doo-duh).

dummy

faker — As in not the real thing (breast)!

fi — From paci FI er.

firefly

fires — Short for "paci-fiers." Took us a while to figure out what she wanted when she was asking for the "red fires."

fluffy

fooler

fuff

fussifier

fussplug

ga-ga

gaw

gi-gi

ginkie

goo-gee — That's what my Italian aunt calls them.

guk

happiness — What my mother-in-law calls it.

hee-hee — My sister called it a "hee-hee," like pas"sy." Then my brother called it a ha-ha, because he couldn't say hee-hee!

hushie

in there — My daughter calls it her "In There"...don't ask

Jar Jar Binks

kiki

la-la

loaner

meemer

me-me

mimi

minkin — From my dad, who always called it a "stinkin' minkin."

mink-mink — My daughter called it that and now our whole family does.

minnie

mmmmmmm

mo-mo

mop — When my husband was little he called it a mop. My MIL would forget to tell the babysitter what he called it, and she'd spend the whole evening thinking he wanted to mop.

mouthpiece — We used to call it a "mouthpiece" until he figured that out. Then we started calling it "MP" for short until he figured that out. So now he calls it "MP."

Mr. Chewy

mute button

na-na

nee-nee — My son called it his "nee-nee" When we finally took it away, we had a few long nights of him patting the bed by his face crying "nee-nee, nee, nee, nee-nee."

nibbler

ni-nite

ninny

ninny love

nip-nip

nonnie

nooch

noochie

noog

nooger

noogie

noonie

noo-noo

nuby

nuggie

nukage

nuker

nukie

nuk-nuk — Rhymes with "duck-duck."

nuk

num

nummy

nummy-noo-nar

nunny — The "u" sounds like the "oo" in "cookie."

nu-nu

P

paci

pappy

pass — My son called it his "pass." If he lost it, he would go around the house saying "Paaasss, where are you paaasss?"

Patsy — We say, "Here is your friend Patsy," like it's a person.

Peaceifier — It kept peace and quiet in the house, that's for sure!

petay — From the Spanish "chupete" (chew-PEH-tay).

pie

pip

pipe — ;My 91-year- old grandmother always called it a "pipe," which we all found hilarious. I've continued the tradition. It receives some funny reactions from others.

pla-pla

platypus

plep

plug

plugger

pluggerdoodle

pluggy

plug-plug

pon-pon — From the Spanish "chupón" (chew-PONE).

pony — From the Spanish "chupon" (chew-PONE).

poose

popper

pop-pop

puck

pucka — Because you pucker up.

pucky — Becausemy cousin couldn't say "sucky" and have it in her mouth at the same time

puggy

purser — I still remember my son dropping it on long car trips and moaning brokenheartedly, "Oh purser, purser, purser."

putt-putt

sassy

schnoolie -- My husband is Austrian and the German word for pacifier is "schnuler" so we call it a "schnoolie."

screamer

seuss or seussy — Started as "soother" and morphed into "seuss" (like Dr. Seuss).

the silencer

silly, sucky thing — SST for short

sneaky Pete — When I was a baby, my dad dubbed the pacifier a "sneaky Pete" because my mom started using it while he was away on business.

soo-soo — From "soother."

soother-roo

soothie

sootie — The "oo" sounds like the "oo" in "cookie."

soska

suce — It's the French translation for "pacifier" (my kids are francophone).

sucette — The French equivalent

sucka — DD calls it a gucka.

sucker

sucky

suzie

Tassy — Not my tassy, or the tassy, but "Tassy" — like it's a first name.

tay-tay

teetock

That-which-shall-not-be-named — I was trying to choose a long name that my son wouldn't pick up on. Then my husband started calling it Voldemort to continue the Harry Potter theme. Our friends think it's hilarious.

the stopper

this — Apparently someone used to say "Do you want this?" and hold up the binky.

tootie

tu-tu

uckey — Short for "sucky."

uh-oh — Because our son heard us exclaim "uh-oh!" a million times when he dropped it. Now when he sees a baby with a paci, he says, "That baby has an uh-oh."

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